I remember a cooling line blowing n a unit we used to manufacture where i worked it was little more than a bit of glycol the company decided they needed to call in a haz-mat team to clean up it cost a fortune and a hefty fine too 2 guys got doused with it and didn't hurt them a bit ...

Then there was the thermometers placed in a box for storage and subsequently had another box set on top of them they broke once again haz-mat was called another hefty fine when the box could have been wrapped in a haz blanket and disposed of properly they put themselves out of buisiness just by existing the company was perpetually in panic mode every time some sneezed too loud

It was comical at times to watch the overlords sweat it out over everyday things that happened in an air conditioning shop !

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posted on 05/29/2012 8:30:58 PM PDT
by ATOMIC_PUNK
(Any man may make a mistake ; none but a fool will persist in it . { Latin proverb })

Unidentified sources report that they were experimenting recombinant DNA, using samples taken from Michael Moore, Julianne Malveaux, Debbie Wasserman-Schulz, a newly discovered virus they got from Courtney Love.

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posted on 05/29/2012 8:45:16 PM PDT
by tacticalogic
("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)

Unidentified sources report that they were experimenting recombinant DNA, using samples taken from Michael Moore, Julianne Malveaux, Debbie Wasserman-Schulz, a newly discovered virus they got from Courtney Love.

What could possibly go worng?

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posted on 05/29/2012 8:49:04 PM PDT
by Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)

Since the tweet was a day ago, I'd have to assume either a major part of the United States is a hazmat area, or it was just a minor spill and some idjiot decided that it'd be really cool if there was an automated warning to send out to people in the event of a disaster, not realizing it would go off for any normal lab accident.

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posted on 05/29/2012 9:05:13 PM PDT
by kingu
(Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)

Once upon a time, back before people were quite so paranoid my company had a group of us cleaning out the junk room which had flooded.

This room had been used to store stuff since the 1940's and there were all kinds of things in there, some of them kind of cool. But one thing I will always remember is the crumbling cardboard box that someone was getting ready to throw on the burn pile before noticing the faded printing on it. That crumbling box held about five pounds of cyanide powder.

It was put down carefully and we called the plant manager who came and took charge of it. He double bagged it, told us to go shower and change our jumpsuits and that was that.

I wonder how many reams of paperwork would need to be filled out now days.

I used to work at the Trojan Nuclear Plant in Oregon. We never had any incident such as you relate, but there was a rather odd incident in Portland, fifty miles away, and Trojan got roped into it.

Someone found an abandonned van loaded up with radio isotopes. Of course those police in Portland were certain we folks as Trojan had something to do with this! Who else but a nuclear power plant would let those radioactive materials get loose on an unsuspecting public!

We had no idea where the isotopes could have come from, though someone did suggest contacting the Oregon Health Sciences University, up on Pill Hill.

Yeah, they were missing a van. The driver was later found at home, sleeping off a drunk.

This should be written so that it is understandable only to those of us with the Freep Decoder Script. Are you sure we need a bunch of Yankee tourists here with million dollar RVs and no food or gasoline for their generators?

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posted on 05/30/2012 4:29:25 AM PDT
by norwaypinesavage
(Galileo: In science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of one individual)

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